Jack Todd’s column on his encounter with a young, barely conscious panhandler has struck a chord with readers this week. “She was lying in the Berri-UQAM métro station after the hockey game Wednesday night, a forgotten soul ignored by the horde of disappointed, grumbling fans in their CH gear heading home after a 2-0 loss to the Rangers,” writes Todd. Wrestling with what to do in the situation, Todd is left feeling conflicted after putting a few dollars in the woman’s empty cup.

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“How many people in this world can say their work saved millions of lives?” Zev Wainberg said in a tearful eulogy of his father Dr. Mark Wainberg Friday. He was a trailblazing HIV researcher and patient advocate who was equally dedicated to his family, his Montreal community, and friends, mourners said. Dr. Wainberg died suddenly in Florida following a swimming incident in Bal Harbour near Miami.

The company behind the Mont-Tremblant and Blue Mountain ski resorts has signed an agreement to be acquired in a friendly deal valued at US$1.5 billion, including debt. Intrawest Resorts Holdings Inc. said Monday that U.S. ski resort company Aspen Skiing Co. and private equity firm KSL Capital Partners have agreed to pay US$23.75 per share in cash.

Sound familiar? “Over a decade spent out of province, combined with a decade of English-language working life here, means my French is pretty much encased in amber at the Grade 5 level. For the rest of the world’s purposes, that means I’m bilingual, but at home in Outremont, my linguistic capacities are functional but never impressive.” Kathryn Jezer-Morton details her adventures as a “semi-bilingual” Montrealer in this week’s Weekend Life feature.

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